Pubdate: Tue, 27 Nov 2007
Source: Charlotte Observer (NC)
Copyright: 2007 The Charlotte Observer
Contact:  http://www.charlotte.com/observer/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/78
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n1331/a09.html
Author: Philip M. Van Hoy

`A MATTER OF FAIRNESS'? OR SELF-PRESERVATION?

"A matter of fairness" (Nov. 19 editorial) notes not only that that 
the U.S. Sentencing Commission may cut at least two years off the 
sentences of 20,000 drug dealers now in federal prisons, but also 
that the Justice Department predicts this mass reduction would 
"unravel the success we have achieved in removing violent crack 
offenders from high crime neighborhoods." The Observer nonetheless 
supports this proposal and notes that the criminals freed will "need 
programs to help them" -- meaning, of course, transfers of resources 
and income from taxpayers.

In advocating its goal of wealth transfers from the productive to the 
non-productive, including even the criminal class, the Observer 
subordinates the basic instinct of self-survival.

Philip M. Van Hoy
- ---
MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom